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| ORGANIZATIONAL STORY WEEKEND APRIL 16-18, 2009 Bookings are now open for the annual weekend of organizational storytelling events in Washington DC. The events are: EVENING WORKSHOP AT THE SMITHSONIAN: INTRODUCTION TO STORYTELLING: Thursday April 16, 2009, 6.30 pm to 9 pm. Book here ALL-DAY SEMINAR AT THE SMITHSONIAN: STORYTELLING AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS: Friday., April 17, 2009, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Book here ALL DAY WORKSHOPS AT THE 4H CENTER: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information is available here.
The Thursday evening session in 2009 will be similar to the Thursday evening session in 2008. It will be led by Svend-Erik Engh and Noa Baum. The Friday and Saturday events in April 2009 will focus on "the role of story and storytelling in generating high-performance teams, vibrant communities and organizations that are highly energized at the grass-roots level." FRIDAY ALL-DAY SEMINAR Leadership and Storytelling: Fri., April 17, 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Storytelling is a powerful and underutilized professional business tool that can inspire and motivate people to believe in goal, own it, join together with others and market it at a grassroots level. The Friday session has a number of innovations to make this an exciting experience. Read about them here. The speakers are: Peter Guber, chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, Co-Host of AMC’s “Shootout” and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will show how to employ the power of the oral narrative to catalyze high performance teams, foster deeper collaboration, overcome resistance and impassion others. Tom Stewart, Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer at Booz & Company and former editor of Harvard Business Review, will discuss how the continual testing that leaders face becomes the story of the leader’s career, and the measure of his or her success. Steve Denning, author of The Secret Language of Leadership, will show how story helped create and sustain a high-performance team at the World Bank and pinpoint the drivers of high-performance groups. Madelyn Blair, CEO of Pelerei Inc., an organizational storytelling consulting firm, will show how story exchange brings equilibrium and coherence to groups by releasing obligations, creating moments of gratitude, and build the sustainability of the group. Seth Kahan will share his framework for creating high-participation events that generate enthusiastic engagement and committed buy-in for transformation. Loren Niemi, storyteller, community organizer and public policy advocate, will show how successive groups of grass roots fellows have claimed their story and engaged the State Legislature to reshape policy to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020. Richard Stone, storyanalytics master at i.d.e.a.s., an arts and technology company, will show how story can engage people with new and big ideas and help them arrive at a new story for a company, product, brand, or process, leading them to go out and do exciting things. Noa Baum, storyteller and diversity facilitator, will draw on her experience with the Israeli-Palestinian issue to show how strategic storytelling and story listening can make use of the paradoxes inherent in complex, diverse groups, to turn them into high performance teams. John Sadowsky, executive coach, will show how a CEO found that his effectiveness as a speaker and presenter improved dramatically when he threw away his notes, statistics, data and PowerPoint slides and learned to tell his personal stories of identity. Susan O’Halloran, diversity and communications expert, will reveal how teams and organizations that aspire to bold, life-giving and creativity-inspiring contributions are, at the center, story listening and storytelling cultures. Admission $125 including lunch Location S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Drive, S.W. Admission $125 including lunch. Book now EVENING WORKSHOP AT THE SMITHSONIAN: INTRODUCTION TO STORYTELLING: Thursday April 16, 2009, 6.30 pm to 9 pm. Book here ALL-DAY SEMINAR AT THE SMITHSONIAN: STORYTELLING AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS: Friday., April 17, 2009, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Book here Details of the Saturday events The lineup of speakers for Saturday April 18, 2009 includes: For Saturday April 18, 2009 the lineup includes Chris Heimann, Victoria Ward, Gerry Lantz, Noa Baum, Pam Smith-Bell, John Sadowsky, Laura Baron, Seth Kahan, Douglas Weidner, Steve Denning, Madelyn Blair, Paul Costello, Svend-Erik Engh, Loren Niemi, Hugh Byrne, Pernille Stockfleth and Michelle James. Location: 4H Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Booking information for Saturday is available here. Resources from the 2006 Smithsonian Weekend If you would like to view or listen to some of the resources from the 2008 and 2006 Smithsonian/GF weekends, go to: http://www.storyatwork.com#Smithsonian2008
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